Australia’s 2026 intergenerational report forecasts demographic and economic pressures
Australia’s population growth rate is forecast to average 0.9% a year over the next four decades.
Australia’s 2026 intergenerational report forecasts longer lives, falling fertility, slower population and economic growth, weaker housing affordability, longer working lives and rising health costs. It projects deaths will outnumber births from the 2060s, population growth will rely entirely on immigration, and the economy will more than double by the mid-2060s.
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- 90years
Life expectancy at birth for Australian women is forecast to reach almost 90 years by 2065-66.
“life expectancy at birth was forecast to reach almost 90 for women by 2065/66”
- 86years
Life expectancy for Australian men is forecast to reach 86 years over the next four decades.
“Life expectancy for men was predicted to rise to 86 years in the next four decades”
- 39.3Mpeople
Australia’s population is forecast to reach 39.3 million by 2065-66.
2 of 2 sources“the country’s population will hit 39.3 million by 2065-66”